Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It was some uncharted territory, but they dove right in. Jarrod shares the fascinating story of how Noble Studios discovered their niche in the competitive travel and tourism industry. Twenty years ago, a couple, sat with their laptops at their house and launched a business. Who knew where they would be 20 years later.

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Tourism Scale Travel Pivotal 144

Xactly

JULY 18, 2018

In order to manage your sales performance, you need effective sales territory mapping. Sales territory design must be a thoughtful process that involves data and a balancing act to ensure every sales rep has adequate sales potential within their territory. Use Data-driven Intelligence to Map Territories. Download Guide.

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Territories Travel Hiring Guidelines 45

Xactly

JUNE 13, 2018

Effective territory design is the basis of strategic sales planning. Balanced territories allow you to set fair quotas, which have a huge impact on your incentive compensation and success of your salesforce. Ultimately, if your sales territories aren’t optimized, you hinder sales reps’ motivation and performance.

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Territories Travel Webinar Metrics How To 49

Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide. The Right Data for Customer Segmentation.

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Territories Software Software Benefit 45

Xactly

JULY 12, 2018

Your sales territories are geographical areas managed by a sales rep or sales team. A territory can be defined by several factors, but most commonly, territories are mapped based on sales potential, sales history, geography, or a combination of factors. Download Guide. The Right Data for Customer Segmentation.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There was a change to your territory. Do you have a plan for prioritizing your accounts?”. The problem is they don’t know the details of your territory like you do. Download the Ultimate Lead List Calculator to prioritize your accounts for success. Segmenting your accounts is an important first step in any Sales plan.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Lead Rank 323

OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 27, 2016

A critical element that is relatively new is territory optimization and we will examine the case for this in this article. The territory optimization and alignment element of salesforce effectiveness is vital for three reasons. If you apply your account/customer segmentation rules assiduously, a realignment will be required.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There was a change to your territory. Do you have a plan for prioritizing your accounts?”. The problem is they don’t know the details of your territory like you do. Download the Ultimate Lead List Calculator to prioritize your accounts for success. Segmenting your accounts is an important first step in any Sales plan.

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Construction Ideal Customer Profile Territories Lead Rank 216

SBI Growth

JANUARY 5, 2014

Resolutions are all about setting challenging goals and holding yourself accountable to achieve them. Travel is another area where managers waste valuable hours. You’re not going to be able to stop traveling. A-players – Incent them more and put them in your best territories. I am big on New Year’s resolutions.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Decision Maker Travel 310

Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

He revealed that while one anxious passenger at an airport gate can cause the entire lineup of travelers to exhibit stress, the opposite is also true. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business. Identify Your Target Market.

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ACT Territories Sports Cold Calling 118

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

Teams that used to just consist of key account managers and “farmers” will be joined by web shop specialists and customer journey advisors. They can take it one step further by using data to divide sales territories more efficiently. To do so, companies need to seek the advice of dedicated specialists.

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B2B Segment Ideal Customer Profile B2C 254

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A 2019 study by Xactly that researched 100,000 women in sales roles, including sales reps, account managers, and sales managers, found that 86% of women achieved quota, compared to only 78% of men. You know the stereotype–the aggressive closer who is a road warrior with lots of overnight travel and is part of the old boys club.

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Hiring Travel Promotion Sales Leadership 118

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Outside sales has traditionally been associated with a territory, assigned accounts, and/or new business development, where customers would place orders with inside salespeople between visits. When you travel by air, flight attendants still recite or play video that shows how to buckle a seat belt.

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Inside Sales Outside Sales Telemarketing Travel 268

SBI

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

TerrAlign is a Sales Territory Optimization solution that can result in 5-10% more account visits with the same head count while reducing travel costs at the same time. The ultimate goal is to make sure that every rep has a well balanced and viable work load with the lowest over-head. Visit TerrAlign.

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2021

Tom is pitching to you because his office is based a few blocks away from your house and your street happens to fall within his territory. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. The Rise of Inside Sales. The New Era of Sales.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Inside Sales Outside Sales 147

Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

He revealed that while one anxious passenger at an airport gate can cause the entire lineup of travelers to exhibit stress, the opposite is also true. Savvy sellers know their target markets: The size, persona and type of accounts that will feed them for days and often years. • Identify Your Target Market.

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ACT Territories Cold Calling Exercises 62

Score More Sales

AUGUST 20, 2012

What I loved about Dale was that he worked at a desk, selling millions of dollars worth of computers, peripherals, and services to the top accounting firms in the U.S. Call me an impressionable 24 year old, but the image of Dale and how he worked with 6 or 8 big accounts by phone has never left me. Travels and makes in-person calls.

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Inside Sales Travel Outside Sales Territories 193

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Those reps were covering an extensive territory and large customer base. Additional inside sellers were brought in to manage small, transactional accounts. This reduced the time spent traveling by more expensive sellers. Digging deeper into accounts gets a higher share of wallet. Resource Allocation. Systems Enhancement.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Margin Face-to-face 293

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These air bubbles can travel to your brain, heart, or lungs and cause a heart attack, stroke, or respiratory failure. We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. To date in 2016, these same territory reps have exceeded their numbers. The result? See this blog for specifics.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Outside sales has traditionally been associated with a territory, assigned accounts, and/or new business development, where customers would place orders with inside salespeople between visits. When you travel by air, flight attendants still recite or play video that shows how to buckle a seat belt.

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Outside Sales Telemarketing Inside Sales Travel 178

The Pipeline

MARCH 27, 2017

But based on numerous sources, many do not have a clue where they are at the end of Q1, and are destine to continue to travel the rest of the year in the same clueless bliss. Despite the talk of ABM, many reps do not extend that work into a territory execution plan or account plan.

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Account Based Marketing Quota Construction Pipeline 120

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 28, 2014

The best players getting the advanced instruction on the travel teams improve the most. It''s just not that unusual to discover that the top salespeople in some companies aren''t at the top because of their skills, but because of the accounts or territory they were assigned or their expertise or tenure in the industry.

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Training Coaching Comparison Territories 246

Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. But he was not able to provide me with a viable territory. The job of a sales manager is to provide a succeeding environment for salespeople.

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 94

Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2020

New tactics to ensure sales readiness must take into account the digital nature of our work world, where in-person interaction is now the exception rather than the rule. In short, time saved by not traveling to meet a customer in person should be spent on building relationships against the backdrop of this new normal.

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Sales Enablement Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Face-to-face 105

Closer's Coffee

APRIL 23, 2020

The proportion of Inside sales professionals is about 48%, and Outside sales professionals account for 52% of the total US labor force.*. They often travel to meet customers face-to-face, as well as to maintain relationships with existing customers at their place of business or interacting at networking events, trade shows and conferences.

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Face-to-face Comparison 64

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

FlightTrack Pro – One of the biggest pain points in a traveling profession is, you guessed it, traveling! It allows you to sync your travel itinerary, and then sends you push notifications about any changes with itinerary – delayed flights, change of gates, etc. Territory Alignment. Soonr is $9.95/user/month

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Pipeline Hiring Travel Top of Funnel 275

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. The first boss I fired was good person and we remain friends today but he could not provide me with a viable territory. What more could you possibly ask for?

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Canadian Sales Leader, LinkedIn Learning Account Executives. Enterprise Account Executive. Mid-Market Account Executive. Account Executive. Account Executive. Account Executive – Mid Commercial. Senior Account Executive. Senior Account Executive. Senior Account Executive.

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Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Enterprise Enterprise 121

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 14, 2014

I was scheduled in meetings, in airport travel, etc. Or we design our account coverage based on what’s most effective for us, not the way the customer wanted to buy? (Or As an example, some years ago, we were helping a very large organization redesign how they handled strategic accounts.

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Customer Territories Account Call-back 93

Xactly

AUGUST 20, 2018

To obtain and manage this data properly, sales organizations need automated sales performance management (SPM) solutions to help facilitate their planning strategically, from territories and quota allocation, to compensation planning and management. Design Fair, Balanced Territories.

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Data Territories Compensation Incentives 45

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 4, 2020

The way businesses sell is constantly changing, and many sales reps are facing impossible deadlines, strict accountability, dozens of curveballs with each deal, and pipeline scrutiny from all sides. This can include major purchases, travel destinations or big milestones. In this decade, sales is a very challenging profession.

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Positioning Hubspot Face-to-face Quota 136

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 21, 2018

Inside sales reps often sell remotely, from an office base, while outside sales reps travel, brokering face-to-face deals. As revenue grew, we saw account roles split to provide better customer support. Inside vs. Outside Sales. 47% of all salespeople work in inside sales, with 53% representing outside sales.

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Outside Sales Hiring Face-to-face Inside Sales 126

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Territory: Where will this salesperson’s leads and customers come from (zip code, vertical market, country, or other)? Travel: Is there travel involved? Will they be expected to blog or maintain a social media account? If so, how many weeks per quarter/year will they be expected to be on the road?

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Hiring Salary Compensation Social Media 102

Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2020

New tactics to ensure sales readiness must take into account the digital nature of our work world, where in-person interaction is now the exception rather than the rule. In short, time saved by not traveling to meet a customer in person should be spent on building relationships against the backdrop of this new normal.

Sales Enablement 52

Sales Enablement Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Face-to-face 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And they don’t publish press releases proclaiming strategic expansions into a new sales territory, and they need new headcount to work that new territory. Savvy professionals can follow target accounts online and watch for relevant announcements. Travel&Tourism. ConsumerProducts. ITServices. AmericanAirlines.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

This sales rep may get nervous and frustrated when management talks about cutting territories, making changes to alliances, strategic partners, the inbound lead system, or anything that affects their current opportunity to make money. technology, travel, marketing, enablement, award money, etc.) For her, it is all about the numbers.

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Motivation Compensation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 85

The Spiff Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

However, even though you’re referencing the same map as everyone else, your speed, efficiency, and ease of travel will vary greatly, depending on which vehicle you’ve chosen. Gone are the days when commission, bonuses, and incentive pay were accounted for as direct expenses. But it also wasn’t designed for long distance travel.

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